{"id":142747,"date":"2021-05-10T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142747"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:31:16","slug":"price-pitches-lancers-to-nwc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/10\/price-pitches-lancers-to-nwc-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Price pitches Lancers to NWC title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landon Price struck out 15 batters and state-ranked Lincolnview (No. 4, Division IV) clinched an outright Northwest Conference championship with a 2-0 win over rival Crestview on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt feels great because this was one of our goals, to win it outright,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Eric Fishpaw said. \u201cIt was a tough scenario, winning that last one especially against a good Crestview team. I knew it would be a good game and that it would come down to who made plays and who could manufacture a couple of runs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lincolnview’s Landon Price struck out 15 Crestview batters during Monday’s 2-0 win. The Lancers clinched an outright NWC championship with the victory. Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tip my hat to Lincolnview (16-7, 8-0 NWC) for running the table in the Northwest Conference,\u201d Crestview head coach Jim Wharton said. \u201cThey have a great group of kids and Eric does a nice job with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was scoreless entering the bottom of the third, when Brandon Renner opened with a single. After a sacrifice bunt by Austin Bockratch and a walk by Price, Renner scored on a fly ball by Collin Overholt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview\u2019s other run came in the sixth and it gave the Lancers a bit of breathing room. Price opened with a single then two batters later, Carson Fox drove in Fox for a 2-0 margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was big,\u201d Fishpaw said of Fox\u2019s RBI. \u201cWe have a lot of faith in our top guys to get on base and manufacture runs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was huge, because when you look at that it was a swinging bunt and (Ayden) Lichtensteiger comes in full tilt and makes a play\u2026it was executed well defensively but it was just placed in a spot where we couldn\u2019t make the play,\u201d Wharton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price, who allowed five hits, fired three straight strikeouts in the seventh to end the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe is the type of player that wants the baseball in this game,\u201d Fishpaw said of Price. \u201cHe is mentally tough, a great team leader and a force on the mound. I think as the game went on Landon got stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Credit also goes to his catcher (Overholt) who had a fantastic game receiving, blocking and throwing out runners at first on balls in the dirt for strike three,\u201d Fishpaw added. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of their efforts tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carson Hunter had two of Crestview\u2019s five hits and Trever Sheets went the distance on the mound, allowing four hits while striking out four and walking one. The Knights (10-8, 3-5 NWC) left five runners on base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to score runs off of Landon and we just needed to have Trev command the strike zone and I thought he did,\u201d Wharton said. \u201cAs young as we are we\u2019re growing day-by-day. We\u2019ve lost some games we shouldn\u2019t have lost and we\u2019ve been fortunate against some tough opponents. Our sticks were decent tonight, we didn\u2019t get completely overwhelmed, especially early and I\u2019m very pleased with our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview will host Hicksville today while Crestview will travel to Minster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Landon Price struck out 15 batters and state-ranked Lincolnview (No. 4, Division IV) clinched an outright Northwest Conference championship with a 2-0 win over rival Crestview on Monday. \u201cIt feels great because this was one of our goals, to win it outright,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Eric Fishpaw said. \u201cIt was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 11:33:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}